Four people were rescued Thursday from the second floor of a Nashua apartment building.The fire at 115 Temple St. was reported at about 5:30 a.m. One tenant said he heard fire detectors go off and noticed smoke in the basement. After seeing flames, he started banging on doors, alerting everyone to the danger.”I tried to douse it for a quick second until I looked up and saw that the ceiling was basically on fire, all the insulation had caught, so I just ran upstairs and started yelling at people,” said resident Rob Hamilton.Tenant Anthony Amoah said he was grateful for the response from firefighters.”I was asleep, and then my friends woke me up,” he said. “I tried to go through the corridor, and the whole place was black with smoke.”The building is only a couple of blocks away from a fire station, so firefighters arrived quickly and found four people trapped on the second floor.”Their egress was blocked with the location of the basement fire and their access to their apartments upstairs, so it was nothing more than some quick work by the guys on the ladder company,” said Deputy Chief Mark Wholey. “They threw some ground ladders up, and they were able to assist those occupants down off the ground ladders.”No one was injured in the fire, which Wholey said took about an hour to get under control.The building’s owner said there were four apartments, and three of them were occupied. Fifteen people have been displaced.”I’ve never gone through anything like this, so I’m learning, as well,” said building owner Tom Missert. “Hopefully they all have renters insurance.”The fire has left the building uninhabitable, fire officials said.The Red Cross has been called in to help residents find temporary shelter. Officials said that with the tight housing market, finding a permanent place to live might be difficult.
Four people were rescued Thursday from the second floor of a Nashua apartment building.
The fire at 115 Temple St. was reported at about 5:30 a.m. One tenant said he heard fire detectors go off and noticed smoke in the basement. After seeing flames, he started banging on doors, alerting everyone to the danger.
“I tried to douse it for a quick second until I looked up and saw that the ceiling was basically on fire, all the insulation had caught, so I just ran upstairs and started yelling at people,” said resident Rob Hamilton.
Tenant Anthony Amoah said he was grateful for the response from firefighters.
“I was asleep, and then my friends woke me up,” he said. “I tried to go through the corridor, and the whole place was black with smoke.”
The building is only a couple of blocks away from a fire station, so firefighters arrived quickly and found four people trapped on the second floor.
“Their egress was blocked with the location of the basement fire and their access to their apartments upstairs, so it was nothing more than some quick work by the guys on the ladder company,” said Deputy Chief Mark Wholey. “They threw some ground ladders up, and they were able to assist those occupants down off the ground ladders.”
No one was injured in the fire, which Wholey said took about an hour to get under control.
The building’s owner said there were four apartments, and three of them were occupied. Fifteen people have been displaced.
“I’ve never gone through anything like this, so I’m learning, as well,” said building owner Tom Missert. “Hopefully they all have renters insurance.”
The fire has left the building uninhabitable, fire officials said.
The Red Cross has been called in to help residents find temporary shelter. Officials said that with the tight housing market, finding a permanent place to live might be difficult.
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